Dr. Matthew Reid Krell

It was about ethics in video game journalism.

Most americans who travel abroad have never actually applied for a visa before and if they start having to they are not gonna like it

Something I have realized as an adult is that there’s being unemployed and there’s not having money and a surprising number of people in the former category are not in the latter category and for them unemployment is primarily a crisis of identity and honestly: cannot relate.

This is such a good point, and it just also illustrates the racist double standards where Mamdani continues to be vilified no matter how much he works on outreach, while for Plattner, there are endless supplies of grace.

Mississippi giving us a great opportunity to explore the boundaries of field preemption post-Loper Bright.

A screenshot of a skeet that says "The interesting thing about Hitler is that it's kinda like he's still alive and his ultimate legacy still isn't set in stone yet, similar to a jesus."

Spot the anti-semitism!

figure 5.1 U.S. Economic Growth, 1790–2012

it's funny you can see how much the New Deal fixed macroeconomic stability within the United States, and the elite hated FDR for it

I share this frustration. So, if I suspect AI usage, I simply assign a minimum score and leave a comment that the student needs to come and talk to me. If they don't, the grade stands. If they do, then I investigate. This (more) aligns effort between the parties.

I would like all the anti-academic people to fuck right off. We know where you stand already.

Timeline cleanser

Handsome street cats of Tehran

Circa 2023

What @faineg.bsky.social has identified makes an existing problem worse. And that existing problem has been ongoing for well over a decade as it reverts to a terribly strategically inept mean that we fell into after Vietnam. 1/

My students (in law classes) are complaining about forty pages of reading per week. (Bear in mind that the book this department uses is Baby's First Casebook - about 30% of the text is judicial opinions, and the rest is author-generated discussion and explanation.)

The number of small businesses closing in my neighborhood due to intense rent hikes is such a shanda. These mom and pops that have been around for decades are being replaced with Sweetgreens and Chipotles or by vacant storefronts because nobody can afford to pay anymore 😢

That was a short-hand at 3 AM that I agree wasn't great. By content-free I just meant there wasn't an argument for the use of AI in social science that I needed to respond to. I apologize for the implication that YOU are content-free.

What did they do to the fall season?

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

Content-free skeet.

I mean, at the risk of being over the top, this is a good thing. Nobody deserves death threats, but mockery establishes the boundaries of acceptable work. We treat Sam Huntington as a pathetic wet lump of a scholar because his work went beyond the bounds of decent inquiry. We do the same here.

AI detectors serve exactly one purpose - convincing their audience that it is possible to automate AI detection.

Also, I quietly love the "in equilibrium" which absolutely concedes that if we demand accountability and responsibility we can get it.

You're so close to getting it, man!

Also content-free.

Content-free skeet.

"There's definitely a pig in this bag, and no you can't look at it" isn't the flex you think it is.

"This product is great if you use it right" isn't really a compelling argument for a new technology. New tech justifies itself by actually being better than the alternative, not "someday, maybe, if you beat your head against the wall enough, it'll be just as good."

It's superhuman at nothing. Maxim 43!

I for one welcome our new focus group overlords.

This is what regulation is for. This is what social and professional norms are for. This is what culture is for.

If we, as a society, decide to marginalize the people using nonsense, then nonsense will only be used by the fringe.

None of which requires the use of the transformer model that is the subject of AI concerns. You can do this stuff using the 2016 machine learning toolkit, and do it just as well, and never have to worry about the box pissing on you.

Sure, but a less-burdensome way to avoid these issues is just not to use the thing or tolerate its use.

I mean, sure, but my opposition is straight-up built on an understanding of the tech and the statistics involved. The box don't do what it says it do. I follow Maxim 43: "If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you got lucky."